How many shots have you taken...

Bump.
Started this thread with c. 21,500 shots on my 550D in June.
5 months later, we've added another 15k with our travels!
Total is 36,500 now!
 
This year I took around 5,200 on my 450D from January until I got my a Canon 7D about 2 weeks ago and I've taken 1,200 one that. Not too shabby seeing as I don't get out with the camera half as much as I'd like.

I've got pictures I've saved since by first digital camera back in March 2002 and up until Jan I had stored 11,082 pics - so in just under 10 years I took 11k, in the last 11 months I've taken 6.4k. As you can tell I've gotten into it a lot more this year :D
 
I'm sure most of you know, but for those that don't you can find out your total shutter actuations in Photoshop.

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About 22k on one D90 and about 1K on the other

I tend not to machine gun much, only when photography moving subjects :)
 
I took about 20000 shots on my D700 over the 18 months I owned it and they pretty much filled a 500gb drive - just got round to finishing "pruning" my archive down from 20000 to just 1000 shots resulting in a more manageable 25GB archive.
 
Pookeyhead said:
I'm sure most of you know, but for those that don't you can find out your total shutter actuations in Photoshop.
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Not For Canons you can't.
 
EOSinfo gives shutter counts for some canons, theres also specialist software for reading shutter counts/dumping roms n calibration.
I got my 7D afew days before my brothers wedding as my 450D just wasnt up to it in low light n ended up doing 3k shots in 3days
 
Bump again.
I've not used my 550D anything like enough recently.
It's 3 years old and has approx 45,200 clicks now.
Need to use it more considering it had 21k in the first year I had it!
How about you guys?
 
Am I alone in not seeing the point of taking ninety million shots of things that are almost the same? I have taken about 9,300 sine November 2008, so around 1,800 a year.
 
Well by way of an update I'd estimate I've shot now about 40000 exposures on my 5D3 the irony is that quite often a large number of exposures in a single day often only results in a couple of final photos, case in point a single star trail image for me is often made up of 300 plus exposures so while I have a high usage level for my camera often I don't have that many photos to show for my efforts :LOL: :cautious:
 
v16ben said:
Bump again.
I've not used my 550D anything like enough recently.
It's 3 years old and has approx 45,200 clicks now.
Need to use it more considering it had 21k in the first year I had it!
How about you guys?
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I got given my 550D to me last year with a shutter count of only 500. I've now make it go up to 9k lol. Most of it has been trial and error stuff like water drops or your average snaps of family outings and the odd time lapse. I can easily sit there and take 500 shots but only come away with a few keepers that I like when doing water drops. I plan on getting out and trying a lot of different stuff with it this year though.
 
I seem to average out at around 100 per day give or take; 30,000-40,000 a year.

Goody13 said:
Am I alone in not seeing the point of taking ninety million shots of things that are almost the same? I have taken about 9,300 sine November 2008, so around 1,800 a year.
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Depends what you have your camera for really. If your job is to take ninety million shots of things that are almost the same, then that's what you do.
 
Goody13 said:
Am I alone in not seeing the point of taking ninety million shots of things that are almost the same? I have taken about 9,300 sine November 2008, so around 1,800 a year.
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you're lucky in many ways. In summer I can take double that over a weekend, all of which people are paying me for, so I don't mind the subject matter
 
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I can see the point if you're being paid for it, but if it's a hobby and you take too many, you'll end up spending more time faffing around with the 90-million shots you've taken, thus wasting valuable time when you could be out shooting.
 
Storage is so cheap I rarely find myself deleting once I've brought the cards back into the house. Personally it's a non-issue when it comes to how many thousands of pictures are sitting on my drives and may never be looked at again. Soon as I get in from a shoot (whether it's (the small amount of) paid or otherwise) I plug the cards into my NAS at let it copy them all across with one button before I get around to turning the PC on.

I leave that back up as is, and then play the cull game when I put them onto my PC, knowing I have all the originals should I need them for whatever reason. Anything too repetitive is deleted in camera beforehand.

To answer the OP's question, I have just over 70k images sitting on my NAS. Maybe 20k of those are RAWs of 20k jpegs, giving around 50k actual photos.

Shutter actuations will be far higher.
 
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My old 400D has about 12000 on it over a few years, but my new 70D bought recently has 7000 on it.

I mainly shoot action sports, never on continuous mind.

My shooting rate has reduced a lot since I've gained experience and my keeper rate has gone up drastically.

I only keep those I process and permanently delete the non keepers.
 
Lightroom tells me I have just short of 105k of images from my D300, that's since January 2007, so that's about 15k a year. You could say that's roughly 41 shots per day, but most of it is motorsport during the spring/summer/autumn months that make up the season.

I've just realised that's 7 years actually, must be time for a new camera :D
 
I tend to agree with not taking loads of shots for the sake of it.
I guess I just like to try lots of variations when I'm photographing something interesting, then keep the ones I like once I get them on the computer at home.
 
Probably 7-8k a year. I'm just am amateur, but I have no problem with shooting a lot as culling is so easy in LR.
 
Just coming up to my first 1000 but ive only had the camera just over a month
 
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